Hi,
I have a little problem with the steam version of X3 TC. After I start the game i get an ear killing static noise in the main menu and in the game. I tried to delete haali (searched the registry too and deleted everything with haali in its name), added the game to the exceptions in ffd and uninstalled Nero, but no luck. After that I installed Reunion (from steam) and it had the same problem. So if anyone can help me please don't hold back
I made a video with Fraps to show you what I am talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtkbMWh7j8g
No other problems with the sound but this one makes it unplayable

Ouch! Start by performing a Steam file verification to make sure your installation isn't corrupt. If that doesn't fix it then you'll need to provide the information requested in the very first thread in this forum for us to have any chance of being able to help you.

What speaker layout is selected in your soundcard control console? If 5.1 or 7.1 then try 4.0/4.1/quad or even stereo with TC and make sure no equalised channel/source volume options (eg SVM) are selected.

Already did a file verification and reinstalled it too and like I mentioned it Reunion has the same problem. My speaker layout is stereo (I have a 2.1 sound system).
Ok let's start with the list:
1. Exact nature of the problem and where and when it occurs: the static noise that you can hear in my youtube video

4. Whether or not your game is modified using any scripts/mods: no mods, a clean and fresh installed game

5. Where appropriate, additional symptoms, error messages and screenshots: no additional symptoms (at least nothing I noticed), no error messages, all sounds work fine, I have weapon sounds, I can hear other pilots when I start a conversation

And like I already mentioned, it's in the main menu and in game. Terran Conflict and Reunion too (will try X2 too).
If you don't understand something in the dxdiag because it's in Hungarian tell me what it is and I'll try to translate it.
And sorry that I didn't start with the list, was a bit late and I wanted to go to bed as soon as possible

Update: X2 has the same problem, but there the noise is present in the company videos too (like Nvidia video)

Last edited by Szombat13 on Wed, 13. Jul 11, 14:39; edited 1 time in total

Did you clear any Source Volume Matching (SVM) options in your soundcard control panel?

I think your HD Audio driver might not be fully installed or properly set up as it has no values in the DxDiag where they might be expected:

Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0

It is also rather old and pre-dates Win7. I would try to get a newer one for Win7 x64 or at least reinstall the one you have.

A more important thing is that all your harddrives are extremely full and at best there is no free space large enough for your pagefile that will not be badly fragmented. Clear out your drives to make more space and defrag them.

Make quite sure that Ffdshow has actually registered the exclusion of TC as you say you have told it to.

I turned all sound "special effects" off, turned the equalizer off and something called sonic focus, that's all I can turn off in the sound control console. I reinstalled the newest sound driver yesterday (the one that is in the dxdiag) and there is nothing newer on the asus website (it's the only place where i found drivers for the soundcard). I can try to install the driver that came with the motherboard, maybe the older one is better.

Nah, no luck with the old driver
Made some free space on my HDD, and did a fragmentation check and it says that fragmentation is at 4%, don't think that fragmentation is the problem

Yes SoundMAX/ASUS do not get a good press write-up. This is from an audio support guru as to why there are no obvious updated drivers from ASUS/SoundMAX:

Quote:

Probably one of those things that because the only place to get SoundMax/ADI drivers is from the motherboard manufacturers, as ADI doesn't release drivers for general sue. That and it is up to each manufacturer to release any updated driver they get from ADI. Then there is the problem of which of their motherboards they post the update to.

Asus is famous for this sort of thing (there are a few threads here about this sort of thing with different motherboards that come with the SupremeFX sound), and not just for audio drivers. They have a very bad habit of only posting the updated driver(s) to currently available motherboards, and even then not always.

Probably about the easiest way (not really) is to check what is available for your specific motherboard, then to look for newer boards that use the same audio chipset and see if any of them have received an update.

The big difference between Realtek/Creative and ADI, is that the others have a semi-unified driver that they put out, just depends on which card/chipset you have as to which to use. Even C-Media puts out a unified driver for most of their current lineup of audio chips, the only difference with their reference driver over what is available from the card/motherboard manufacturer is it is missing the manufacturer's specific software/control panel.

I would reinstall the newer driver and then maybe try the drive clean up and defrag. If nothing helps, perhaps you could use that equaliser you mentioned to reduce the comparative effect of the static noise in the game.

I think I know what I have to do, but I don't want to reinstall my windows Will try what you said but I think I'll have to do that what I can't avoid, not now but one day when I'm bored with my life and red frogs fall from the sky

Good to hear that drastic measures fixed it. Just one thing you said earlier though which shows a misunderstanding:
"Made some free space on my HDD, and did a fragmentation check and it says that fragmentation is at 4%, don't think that fragmentation is the problem"

With a near-full drive that figure shows that any large files you save after that will be fragmented - and that is bad news for an often replaced large file like your pagefile. Ideally the OS should have enough continuous free space on the drive to do routine housekeeping and keep fragmentation at say 1% or preferably zero.

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